cover image Street Child

Street Child

Berlie Doherty. Puffin Books, $4.99 (160pp) ISBN 978-0-14-037936-5

""With its sootily authentic atmosphere and its earnest reformist message,"" said PW in a starred review, this tale of a homeless boy in Victorian England ""calls to mind the ambience of Charles Dickens's novels."" Ages 10-14. (June)